A good podcast and a walk helps.
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#12I write!
I started a new habit back in 2016: anytime I felt bored or felt an impulse to just open a browser and navigate to a news site, I would instead tab to my word processor and write little character scenes or plan out the plot of a new chapter in my book.
I actually finished an entire manuscript for a murder mystery book this way.
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#13play video games or post on online forums, like HN !
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#14Haven't been bored since I was a child. You can streetview in Finland and American Samoa, what's "bored"...?
Top and bottom responses say the same thing, but the upvoted one doesn't even provide an answer in their harassment! Such is mob justice ^_^
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#15It’s hard to explain. I do get bored, but I think I also have some form of malignant attitude issues that could be coming from depression (I don’t really enjoy anything anymore). It’s really hard to kill boredom in that state without resorting to alcohol (which makes anything fun). My most favorite thing is feeling sleepy and going to sleep. So yeah, intoxication and sleep are pretty much my go-tos now days.
I debated replying to this because it'd involve revealing something about my past that I'm not very proud of/may not want searched by my name, but I don't think I've ever seen someone put so bluntly exactly how I felt while I was going through my "drinking years". For folks who don't know what alcoholism is really like, I think you've done a perfect job of describing what alcohol addiction really feels like. I was th…
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#16Playing Transport Fever 2. Thank me later
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#17i rarely get bored, b/c i'm always trying to make my own life as difficult as possible, but when i'm actually bored it's prob time for some nba on tv, or youtube -- there's always some intellectual-type debate or something -- or one of the international tv news channels, or hn or one of the 100 news sites i have bookmarked, or 'spin' thru my 8,800 bookmarks, or walk/audiobook time, or bar.
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